Amazing CGI, but that's about it.

Rating: 4/10 (22 August 2013)

So, I came into the theater with a positive attitude despite my friends having already judged the movie based on the trailer. It had been given some great reviews, so I figured it can't be all that bad. Now I realize I was sorely mistaken, I swear to god they must have spent half of that 200.000.000 budget on bribing people to give them good reviews.
I haven't received my paycheck, so I'm going to be honest instead.
So let's just summarize what I think about this movie. It's ridiculous. The CGI is ridiculously good. The acting and the script is ridiculously bad.
I knew exactly what kind of movie this was from the beginning, I mean, who didn't. It was blockbuster movie, a CGI-feast. I just expected it to hold a higher class.
In a CGI blockbuster movie of this magnitude I expect at least some witty humor along with the giant robots whipping alien ass. ( Think The Avengers ).
But there was none. The characters was just awful... I can't even begin to imagine the kind of drugs the writers took when they thought it was a good idea to turn the whole movie into high-school drama movie for 45 minutes. It's so exhausting to watch it, there's even the bully with the leather jacket that for absolute no reason doesn't like the main character, there's the high-school crush thing going on... it's exhausting just thinking about it. The only thing I could think about during the middle piece of the movie was "When the hell are they going to blow stuff up with their robots?" I was cringing so hard that my face hurt.
But the movie has it upsides, the CGI is ridiculously good. You truly get engaged in those fight scenes. Every punch delivered by those massive machines makes you just stand up and shout "**** YEAH!!!". The music was also fitting.
Therefore, 4 out of 10 stars seemed the appropriate rating.